The Unsealed Metalmind Creation Chart

[Trusk'our he/him]

Shardbuddies, I'm really, really excited. 

I saw this WoB only minutes ago on Brandon's Ghostbloods update:

Spoiler

https://wob.coppermind.net/events/544-ghostbloods-updates/

Brandon Sanderson

Hey, all! I thought I'd stop by and post an update to your new book, which I've been working on diligently these last few months.

If you've been following along on the Weekly Updates, you'll know that I've been making slow and steady progress. Well, last week I passed the 50% mark, and hit the "midpoint" of the first book. It's been a blast to be back on Scadrial, working on the modern era of Mistborn--something I began outlining in 2005! (Wax and Wayne was not part of the plan back then. I'm glad I did it though, as it would have been too long a wait otherwise. Twenty years!)

The story is following a new recruit into the Ghostbloods, and...well, I don't want to say too much. We've got three years until the book comes out. As a reminder, my plan is to write all three before the first one is out. There are some things I can tell you, though, so I'll put those in the spoiler tag below.

I had originally talked about this being about a nicroburst who helped with an apparent Mistborn serial killer. I've moved away from this as the central plot for a couple of reasons. First, I feel the story with Bleeder covered this serial killer angle in era two, and I don't want to do something similar. Second, era two was able to establish some of the things I wanted this story to introduce, and I feel I can move ahead a little. So, while the lead is one of the same characters I've been planning a while, she's going to be involved in something else, originally planned for the second book. Note that the lead is not the nicroburst character, whom I'll make use of a little later. But yes, the space race is still very much the central plot of the trilogy as a whole. If you want more clues as to where I'm going with this, Isles of the Emberdark might have them for you...

I am going to take a break to do some revisions on the book and work on something else you might find exciting: the comprehensive document explaining Malwish medallions, airships, and the very complicated details of how that all works. (The things that are too granular to go in the books.) I would like to have this done pretty soon, as I promised to release these mechanics once Lost Metal was out--but I haven't been able to find my original notes document about this, and have to reproduce it from scratch. (I've been putting off doing this, as I'm sure the notes file is hiding on my hard drive somewhere. Usually, I don't have trouble finding these things, but this one has eluded me. So I'm just going to remake it, let editorial/arcanists look it over, and get all the fundamental cosmere science explanations in place before this book is ready for beta reads.)

I'm traveling extensively next month (for my anniversary, then a trip to Spain, then probably a drop by to tour the Avengers set in London, since I've got some friends working on the film.) So expect the percentage bar to stay static for a little while, but don't be concerned. I'll be using that time to work on the notes document, and probably to work a little on the Mistborn screenplay. (Don't get too excited; it's not anywhere close to being made. I haven't even resold the rights yet. I merely want to have it ready in case something does happen.)

This is something I've been hoping for a long time and didn't think we'd actually get. But it looks like it is coming, maybe even a while before Ghostbloods is released. 

[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

2 minutes ago, Trusk'our said:

Shardbuddies, I'm really, really excited. 

I saw this WoB only minutes ago on Brandon's Ghostbloods update:

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https://wob.coppermind.net/events/544-ghostbloods-updates/

Brandon Sanderson

Hey, all! I thought I'd stop by and post an update to your new book, which I've been working on diligently these last few months.

If you've been following along on the Weekly Updates, you'll know that I've been making slow and steady progress. Well, last week I passed the 50% mark, and hit the "midpoint" of the first book. It's been a blast to be back on Scadrial, working on the modern era of Mistborn--something I began outlining in 2005! (Wax and Wayne was not part of the plan back then. I'm glad I did it though, as it would have been too long a wait otherwise. Twenty years!)

The story is following a new recruit into the Ghostbloods, and...well, I don't want to say too much. We've got three years until the book comes out. As a reminder, my plan is to write all three before the first one is out. There are some things I can tell you, though, so I'll put those in the spoiler tag below.

I had originally talked about this being about a nicroburst who helped with an apparent Mistborn serial killer. I've moved away from this as the central plot for a couple of reasons. First, I feel the story with Bleeder covered this serial killer angle in era two, and I don't want to do something similar. Second, era two was able to establish some of the things I wanted this story to introduce, and I feel I can move ahead a little. So, while the lead is one of the same characters I've been planning a while, she's going to be involved in something else, originally planned for the second book. Note that the lead is not the nicroburst character, whom I'll make use of a little later. But yes, the space race is still very much the central plot of the trilogy as a whole. If you want more clues as to where I'm going with this, Isles of the Emberdark might have them for you...

I am going to take a break to do some revisions on the book and work on something else you might find exciting: the comprehensive document explaining Malwish medallions, airships, and the very complicated details of how that all works. (The things that are too granular to go in the books.) I would like to have this done pretty soon, as I promised to release these mechanics once Lost Metal was out--but I haven't been able to find my original notes document about this, and have to reproduce it from scratch. (I've been putting off doing this, as I'm sure the notes file is hiding on my hard drive somewhere. Usually, I don't have trouble finding these things, but this one has eluded me. So I'm just going to remake it, let editorial/arcanists look it over, and get all the fundamental cosmere science explanations in place before this book is ready for beta reads.)

I'm traveling extensively next month (for my anniversary, then a trip to Spain, then probably a drop by to tour the Avengers set in London, since I've got some friends working on the film.) So expect the percentage bar to stay static for a little while, but don't be concerned. I'll be using that time to work on the notes document, and probably to work a little on the Mistborn screenplay. (Don't get too excited; it's not anywhere close to being made. I haven't even resold the rights yet. I merely want to have it ready in case something does happen.)

This is something I've been hoping for a long time and didn't think we'd actually get. But it looks like it is coming, maybe even a while before Ghostbloods is released. 

Where did you find that?

[Trusk'our he/him]

Just now, CoderDrag0n8 said:

Where did you find that?

The Arcanum.

[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

1 minute ago, Trusk'our said:

The Arcanum.

Yay

[Akimikoisthecutest]

That's so cool!!!

[NerdSandwich she/her]

yay!

[iceblade44 he/him]

Really hope we see it soon, its been a month now

[Trusk'our he/him]

4 hours ago, iceblade44 said:

Really hope we see it soon, its been a month now

Two, actually. But yeah, hope it's soon!

[JustQuestin2004 he/him]

6 hours ago, Trusk'our said:

Two, actually. But yeah, hope it's soon!

Here's hoping it's released at Dragonsteel Nexus 2025.

[Trusk'our he/him]

7 hours ago, JustQuestin2004 said:

Here's hoping it's released at Dragonsteel Nexus 2025.

Ah! That would make sense, I think.

I was waiting at first for it just being done, but it might be more reasonable for him to release it at a real event.

[JustQuestin2004 he/him]

1 hour ago, Trusk'our said:

Ah! That would make sense, I think.

I was waiting at first for it just being done, but it might be more reasonable for him to release it at a real event.

Hopefully alongside the print versions of Elsecaller and the Lopen Stormlight novellas.

And here I thought Emberdark would be all the Cosmere stuff to look forward to this year. Glad to be wrong.

[DracoAdamantus he/him]

Oh yes. Yesss! This is everything I've been waiting for. I've been descending into madness theorizing about the construction of Malwish medallions for the past few weeks when a certain itch caught me, and I keep having to step away cause there's just too much we don't know about the interplay between Identity, Connection, and Investiture to put together anything I'm happy with.